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... whole English and American portion of the audience arose and gave three great cheers that made the roof tremble . From that moment to the end of the last session the electric current of sympathy between speaker and hearer was complete ...
... whole English and American portion of the audience arose and gave three great cheers that made the roof tremble . From that moment to the end of the last session the electric current of sympathy between speaker and hearer was complete ...
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... whole future life will feel grateful . I am an old man , and every day from boyhood to the present time I thought I had repeated the Lord's Prayer ; but I never heard it before , never ! ' are right , ' replied Booth : ' to read that ...
... whole future life will feel grateful . I am an old man , and every day from boyhood to the present time I thought I had repeated the Lord's Prayer ; but I never heard it before , never ! ' are right , ' replied Booth : ' to read that ...
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... whole year long I have been doing all this , —talking to children I could not see about all sorts of things . I have tried to fancy they all stood around me , and sometimes I would count them in my mind . And now many new ones have come ...
... whole year long I have been doing all this , —talking to children I could not see about all sorts of things . I have tried to fancy they all stood around me , and sometimes I would count them in my mind . And now many new ones have come ...
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... whole of that meaning is never brought out fully except when the word is put thus : " Merry Christ- mas . " Then you have it in all its glory . Then you have it with all its ages of music , like the harp - voices of a thousand years ...
... whole of that meaning is never brought out fully except when the word is put thus : " Merry Christ- mas . " Then you have it in all its glory . Then you have it with all its ages of music , like the harp - voices of a thousand years ...
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... whole Latin circle ; he has , therefore , prepared a couple of tables , or pages , which will show them the family resemblance and relations that exist between the members of the Latin family of languages , and which may help them to ...
... whole Latin circle ; he has , therefore , prepared a couple of tables , or pages , which will show them the family resemblance and relations that exist between the members of the Latin family of languages , and which may help them to ...
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Popular passages
Page 60 - And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
Page 118 - Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age : and he made him a coat of many colours.
Page 158 - But think on me when it shall be well with thee, and show kindness, I pray thee, unto me, and make mention of me unto Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house: for indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.
Page 24 - Then when Mary was come where JESUS was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying unto him, LORD, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
Page 59 - And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man : abide with me.
Page 46 - And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, so that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God: and this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
Page 104 - And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites : and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me ; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
Page 27 - And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto him; "My son:" and he said unto him, "Behold, here am I." And he said: "Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death: now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me some venison; and make me savory meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I...
Page 93 - And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand: for therefore I have seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me.
Page 159 - And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret it: and I have heard say of thee, that thou canst understand a dream to interpret it. And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace.